“A Study of The Painter’s Hands” and its development.
“A Study of The Painter’s Hands” and its development.
![The Artist's Hands Study.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZnFzvTbDdKrm7uVyRUnqPBt17tTuQSfSBooKdh9TgozC/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study.jpg)
A Study of The Painter's Hands
9" x 12"
Oil on birch panel
Greetings fellow Steemians!
In this post I thought I would share my latest painting of a study of my own hands and discuss its process/development.
So before I was going to transfer my block in drawing, I first decided to tone the panel’s surface with raw sienna.
![The Artist's Hands Study1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmQqKREWiXQjjL7yrT4RBQKmwEMPmbTzUXrcrAwEpyowHb/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study1.jpg)
After I transferred my armature drawing, I then sealed it with ink and then began to proceed with laying in the shadows/darks.
![The Artist's Hands Study2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQma8CheCnhi1PTXH95ePqJFkBh5SLkDAKEBmBTLzHvfvqQ/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study2.jpg)
Working in a very tight and direct manner, I progressively aimed towards a final finish as much as possible before moving on to connecting the adjacent forms.
![The Artist's Hands Study3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmespctWkBHVgPcBG66WpihYSggKpdeRnLCCr9FbMi8mxP/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study3.jpg)
As I continued to work in the shadows, I kept into consideration to have them remain “hot” in temperature, and to render the core shadow’s terminator line (the forms coming out of the shadow) to be cold but neutral.
![The Artist's Hands Study4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQYFTDCfK74Kom4aiWrVwEpYZohtFzyAWZrKBgUhsBwJw/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study4.jpg)
As I finished the first pass on the first hand, I then began to finish massing in the adjacent background with a mixture of titanium white and ultramarine blue.
![The Artist's Hands Study5.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmVRmRAYvGecgLAQRYv27kmJTE6SEZaEE8fn8CMEhjNQ6W/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study5.jpg)
..I then continued to somewhat fill in the surrounding background and with mixtures of ivory black and venetian red started to fill in the predominant shadows of the left hand.
![The Artist's Hands Study6.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdjhSxSG53c5nFKsAdCXNL272crPcScnTMUb8Zqyot2tg/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study6.jpg)
As you can see in the section between the thumb and index finger, in the methodical approach of tiling I made sure to extend the cold but neutral midtones out of the core shadow, proceeded to render in the local color of the form, and increasing in value as I turned into the light.
As a side note, I’d like to point out that I treat all forms in this way. Just remember, that in a sense everything is a sphere.
![The Artist's Hands Study7.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmdPozX82hSwMkKJGoT2hvSyDT5q4spRchvebZdbWNzufU/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study7.jpg)
..Working my way up to the fingers, I made sure to keep those lightest of lights as opaque as I can.
![The Artist's Hands Study8.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVqAzXLrW9GQxLvP6i9AKyMtU1W9ThGqhDdXoCT2L814p/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study8.jpg)
...Aaannd it's finished!
![The Artist's Hands Study.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmZnFzvTbDdKrm7uVyRUnqPBt17tTuQSfSBooKdh9TgozC/The%20Artist's%20Hands%20Study.jpg)
The palette I used for this painting was once again what I’d consider a minimal palette. I used titanium white, yellow ocher, venetian red, ultramarine blue, and ivory black.
Please feel free to let me know what you think?
Thanks for reading Everyone!
-James Hansen
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A very good work, upvoted!
Just today I posted my interpretation of hand...let me know what do you think about it. Thanks!!